Topic: Health

What's Happening to Medicare? Facts for older Oklahomans

By: Kate Richey
June 8, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Sweeping changes to the nation’s health care system were enacted in recent years and talk of even more changes continues to reverberate in debates over the federal budget.  Central to the discussion and always a lightning rod in health care… Read more [More...]

Health Care Reform (8): Temporary High Risk Pools

By: Kate Richey
May 23, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the eighth in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on health insurance exchanges and tax credits for small businesses.  You can also visit the health care reform page on our website… Read more [More...]

Guest Blog (Julie Miller-Cribbs, MSW, PhD): Young and Uninsured in Oklahoma

By: Guest
May 13, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Julie is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director of the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. The number of uninsured individuals in Oklahoma has reached approximately 600,000 individuals. Almost half of Oklahoma’s uninsured are between the ages of… Read more [More...]

Short-changed on a health exchange

By: David Blatt
May 4, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
In the new national health care law (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA), exchanges are state-level competitive marketplaces for individuals and small businesses to purchase insurance. After winning a $54 million Early Innovator grant earlier this year, Oklahoma was poised… Read more [More...]

Guest Blog (Jeffrey Alderman, M.D.): The silent problem in Oklahoma health care

By: Guest
April 29, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Jeffrey Alderman, M.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine in Tulsa. With Medicaid cuts looming and the federal government entertaining efforts to shift the costs of Medicare… Read more [More...]

Medicaid block grant proposal would hurt states, consumers and providers

By: David Blatt
April 14, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The U.S. House or Representatives is expected to vote tomorrow on a federal budget proposal for the coming year that would —  among other things —  force drastic cuts to Medicaid that would harm Oklahoma seniors, people with disabilities, and… Read more [More...]

Gov. Fallin to Insurance Underwriters: Like it or not, health reform is the law of the land

By: Kate Richey
March 25, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The Tulsa Association of Health Underwriters hosted Governor Mary Fallin and Insurance Commissioner John Doak at a forum on how health care reform would affect the insurance industry.  Addressing a packed house at the Tulsa Country Club, Governor Fallin repeated… Read more [More...]

Happy Anniversary, ACA

By: David Blatt
March 23, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Today is the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama signing into law the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA).  Many of the most far-reaching provisions of the health care reform law – including the launch of new health insurance exchanges for… Read more [More...]

Oklahoma Named Early Innovator: $54 million to build the best health care technology in the country

By: Kate Richey
March 7, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The ‘Oklahoma Health Insurance Exchange’ will begin serving as an online marketplace for individual and small group consumers to buy private insurance in 2014.  Online insurance exchanges – which we discussed in this recent blog post –  are one of… Read more [More...]

Health Care Reform (7): It's more than a mandate

By: Kate Richey
February 24, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the seventh in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on the Temporary High Risk Pool, health insurance exchanges and tax credits for small businesses.  You can also visit the health care… Read more [More...]